Dev Patel

Judi Dench

Richard Gere

Maggie Smith

Bill Nighy

Celia Imrie

Penelope Wilton

Ronald Pickup

Diana Hardcastle

Tina Desai

Lillete Dubey

David Strathairn

Tamsin Greig

Claire Price

Subhrajyoti Barat

Fiona Mollison

Shazad Latif

Avijit Dutt

Denzil Smith

Poppy Miller

Rajesh Tailang

Atul Tiwari

Seema Azmi

Neeraj Kadela

Vikram Singh

Siddharth Makkar

Danny Mahoney

Zachary Coffin

Jayesh V. Kardak

Ashok Pathak

Sarvesh Vyas

Lateesha Dorik

Avantika Akerkar

Shishir Sharma

Lokesh Rai

Atul Kale

Sufiyan Khan

Dinesh Pradhan

Anita Pradhan

John Madden

Ol Parker

Thomas Newman

Graham Broadbent

Peter Czernin

Victoria Boydell

Michelle Guish

Seher Aly Latif

Martin Childs

Ed Turner

Beverley Binda

Xavier Peter D'Souza

Daniel Phillips

Kamlesh U. Shinde

Vaibhav Shinde

Alistair Hopkins

Rakesh Singh

George Walker

Tim Cavagin

Craig Irving

Alastair Sirkett

Sam Southwick

Nakul Kamte

Ashraf Khan

Simon Trundle

Ian Wilson

Paul Wrightson

Thomas Proctor

Adam Coles

Jamie Fowlds

Vince McGahon

Ronan Murphy

Laurie Sparham

Alison Lewis

Riyaz Ali Merchant

Vivek Pratap

Marina Theodotou

Pedro 'Tate' Aráez

Bhawani Singh

Thomas Woods

Tony Lewis

J.A.C. Redford

Kim Armitage

Matt Curtis

Sumeet Goradia

Asia Jarzyna

Raman Prasher

Amelia Price

Ben Smithard

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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Jack

Just like the first film, this one also takes you to a very special journey you can never forget. The honesty of the characters and how relatable they are is what made the first film so charming and unique applies to this film too.

These two films have a very special place in my heart.

Would I watch it again? Absolutely! Would I make my friends watch it? Definitely.

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Well hats off to John Madden for managing to reassemble the cast from the first film from four years earlier, and for securing the sparing services of Richard Gere but I'm afraid the rest of this is all a poor cousin. With the hotel now more successful, "Sonny" (Dev Patel) and "Mrs. Donnelly" (Dame Maggie Smith) are in the USA trying to seek funding for them to expand, and to buy the former women's palace for their next venture. Returning, and expecting an inspector to come and evaluate their business they greet the arrival of writer "Chambers" (Gere) and of new guest "Lavinia" (Tamsin Greig) in slightly different manners - and that's the first mistake for "Sonny"! The first film had a freshness to it, they (and we) were are all exploring a new life with new opportunities in a new bustling city: this is a much less joyful affair. Everyone appears to be looking towards the end; the characters are much flatter and slightly more depressed. The mischievous characterisations from Ronald Pickup and Celia Imrie have entered a rather uninteresting cul-de-sac. Familial discord between Sonny, his fiancée and his mother is all just a bit too convoluted and the story just, frankly, runs out of steam. Patel exudes charisma, he does way more to carry this than any of others and in the end comes up with quite a decent bit of dancing too. It's colourful and it's doesn't hang about, but Dame Maggie, in particular, has lost much of her curmudgeonly charm and Dame Judi really rather simpers through the film with little of the spark we saw before. To be honest, I'm not really sure the first film really merited a sequel at all. This one is really not very memorable and Richard Gere's character adds very little indeed.

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Written by Jack on Wed May 13 2020

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